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  1. Re:One data point... by KeithIrwin · · Score: 1 · on Google Blogger: Vietnamese HS Students Excelling At CS

    He also said that they don't understand loops and conditionals. I think that the author is pretty clear that web development isn't CS, based on several of the other articles he linked to (like, this one). But students who have a solid understanding of programming and are used to consulting reference material for how particular commands or functions work would be highly unlikely to be stymied by IMG tags if they were to try to create some. It's not exactly a complex concept. People who have trouble with IMG tags would be people who aren't used to looking at code carefully or ones who think that computers "understand" things. Neither of those should be the case for anyone who has had a reasonable computer science education.

  2. Re:HTML image tag? Really? by anagama · · Score: 4, Informative · on Google Blogger: Vietnamese HS Students Excelling At CS

    I think the the HTML reference comes from several links deep, not specifically, but topically:

    Of the two classes described, neither teaches computer science. The first teaches keyboarding and use of Microsoft applications, while the second teaches website design. While the website design course claims to teach the use of "HTML programming code," this is a misuse of the term, as HTML is a markup language rather than a programming language and requires no understanding of algorithms or program design.

    http://blog.carolynworks.com/?p=572

    Which was summarized in the article like this:

    Teachers often refuse to teach real CS because more often than not they don't understand it. Instead, they end up teaching word processing and website construction, while calling it CS.

    http://neil.fraser.name/news/2013/03/16/

    So essentially he's saying that US CS curriculum is so bad, students can't even do html, which actually isn't programming anyway, it's just a kind of text formatting.

  3. Re:How is this a gender issue? by stdarg · · Score: 1 · on Do High Schools Know What 'Computer Science' Is?

    The computer applications class is not called "computer science" -- it's called "computer applications." It's just listed under the "computer science" section of the class list.

    source: the article

    It's more like if you had the Biology 1 course listed in a section called "Pre-med track" or something, which would be fine.